...Anyway, for those unfamiliar with it, Legendary Brawl is a 12 player free-for all romp through the Legendary maps (with several of the normal maps and Heroic as well). If that description and the name of the playlist are not an indicator, that means that you need at least the Legendary Map Pack if you want to participate. Legendary Brawl is ranked, so this is a great opportunity to get those last couple achievements that you have been so wrongfully denied. Good luck!

Legendary Brawl is available from 11am PDT on Thursday, August 7th until Monday the 11th at 2am. Heroic and Legendary Map Packs required (But not Cold Storage).

As of right now, our matchmaking support team has deployed two major playlist additions, introducing Arena FFA and Community Slayer, the latter of which is completely comprised of some notable Forgetacular maps. They've also made other, more minor modifications, which we've lovingly listed below. Go nuts!

PLAYLISTS

Arena

Added FFA Arena playlist, test your might in this 6-8 player Arena

Added Unanchored map variant to all Arena playlists

Players can now change their votes in Arena playlists

Community Slayer

The first of several new community playlists

Unaltered maps made by you, the Halo community

Play and vote. Your voting data controls what rises into the ranks of official playlists!

Team Objective

Cleaned up entries in the Team Objective playlist, we now offer the best of the best

MLG

Maps updated to v2.1, this includes fixes to weapon spawn times

Team Slayer

Adjusted weightings in response to voting data, default “Team Slayer” should now be available more often

MAPS

Asylum

Added soft kill volumes to the rocks leading up to the ledge on the right side of the Red Base (AKA, Infection camping grounds)

Adjusted the placement of the large rock on the outside ledge of Red Sniper spawn

The second half of our October playlists just went live. Here's the rundown on what you can expect, shamelessly stolen from last Friday's Weekly Update.

October Playlist Updates: Part Deux

Playlists

New Playlist: Team Snipers

New Playlist: Living Dead

Rumble Pit

Lineup rebalanced to offer more kill, less frill.

Removed Infection, Safe Havens, Race, Rally, Headhunter Pro

Removed “Classic” gametypes

Team Slayer

Removed all Snipers gametypes

Team SWAT

Added SWAT Magnums gametype

Team Objective

Removed 1 Flag Classic

Removed Headhunter Pro

Removed the following gametypes from Hemorrhage due to the size of the map with only 8 players:

Multiflag Classic

1 Flag CTF

1 Flag Pro

1 Bomb Assault

Removed Oddball and Hot Potato from Boardwalk

Multi Team

Removed SWAT

Removed Classic gametypes

Removed The Cage

Changed weighting for Rocket Race so it does not have a 100% chance to appear in Slot 3

Big Team Battle

Removed Multiflag from Boneyard and Spire

Invasion

This playlist now offers 3 voting options

Firefight

Updated Firefight playlist gametypes to be a full set instead of 1 round. Adjusted skull progression.

Removed Friendly Fire

Score Attack

Removed Crash Site

Added Mythic Score Attack

You can no longer pickup other weapons in Sniper Attack

Maps

Zealot/Arena Zealot

Arena Zealot is now used for all Slayer gametypes

Players can no longer stand on the edge of the generators in space and crouch to shoot below the shield

Asylum

Softkill zones added to the tops of the Sniper buildings

Boneyard

Modified respawn zones for Slayer gametypes

Hemorrhage

Modified respawn zones for both bases

Respawn timers for all Warthogs on Hemorrhage should now be 120 seconds

Gametypes

CTF

All CTF gametypes should now have a player respawn of 10 seconds

All Classic CTF gametypes now feature Flag At Home To Score and Touch Return

Flag At Home To Score disabled for all non-Classic CTF gametypes

Modified Flag Return and Flag Reset times:

1 Flag on Small maps use 10 second return and 30 second reset

All other CTF gametypes use 30 second return and 45 second reset

Assault

Assault gametypes now have a player respawn time of 10 or 15 seconds depending on the map

In addition to the Playlist changes, we’re also introducing two new Forge Map Variants with this update, Cliffhanger and Atom. Atom will be on display in the Team Slayer, Team Snipers, Team Objective, Multi Team, and Big Team Battle Playlists. Cliffhanger will be found in Rumble Pit, Team Slayer, Team SWAT, and Team Objective.